Women in Elective Office 2018
In 2018, women hold 107, or 20.0%, of the 535 seats in the 114th U.S. Congress - 23, or 23.0%, of the 100 seats in the Senate and 84, or 19.3%, of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who was the first woman Speaker of the House, is now minority leader.
plus 5 (3D, 2R) Delegates
In 2018, 74 women hold statewide elective executive offices across the country; women hold 23.7% of the 312 available positions. Among these women, 28 are Democrats, 44 are Republicans and 2 is non-partisan.
2 non-partisan
| AL | Kay Ivey (R) |
| IA | Kim Reynolds (R) |
| NM | Susana Martinez (R) |
| OK | Mary Fallin (R) |
| OR | Kate Brown (D) |
| RI | Gina Raimondo (D) |
| AK | Valerie Davidson (NP) | MA | Karyn Polito (R) | |
| CO | Donna Lynne (D) | MN | Michelle Fischbach (R) | |
| CT | Nancy Wyman (D) | NJ | Shiela Oliver (D) | |
| DE | Bethany Hall-Long (D) | NY | Kathy Hochul (D) | |
| IL | Evelyn Sanguinetti (R) | OH | Mary Taylor (D) | |
| IN | Suzanne Crouch (R) | WI | Rebecca Kleefisch (R) | |
| KY | Jenean Hampton (R) |
| Attorney General - 8 (5D, 3R) | Railroad Commissioner - 1R | |
| Secretary of State - 11 (5D, 6R) | Commisioner of Labor - 2R | |
| State Treasurer/Chief Financial Officer - 8 (3D, 5R) | Corporation Commissioner - 1R | |
| State Comptroller - 2D | Public Service Commissioner - 3R | |
| State Auditor - 9 (5D, 4R) | Public Utilities Commissioner - 1R | |
| Chief State Educational Official - 8 (7R, 1 non-partisan) | Commissioner of Lands - 1D | |
In 2018, 1,875 (1,144D, 705R, 14NP*, 7Ind, 5Prg.), or 25.4%, of the 7,383 state legislators in the United States are women. Women hold 450 (261D, 173R, 14NP, 2Ind.), or 22.8%, of the 1,972 state senate seats and 1,425 (883D, 532R, 5Ind., 5Prg.), or 26.3%, of the 5,411 state house seats. Since 1971, the number of women serving in state legislatures has more than quintupled.
Includes 14 non-partisan, 7 Independent, 5 Progressive
Vermont (39.4%)
Nevada (38.1%)
Colorado (38.0%)
Washington (37.4%)
Illinois (35.0%)
Maine (33.9%)
Maryland (33.5%)
Oregon (33.3%)
Rhode Island (31.9%)
Oklahoma (13.4%)
Louisiana (14.6%)
West Virginia (14.9%)
Mississippi (14.9%)
Alabama (15.0%)
South Carolina (15.9%)
Tennessee (15.9%)
Kentucky (16.7%)
North Dakota (18.4%)
As of August 2018, among the 100 largest cities in the U.S., 23 had women mayors. Seven are Black (Keisha Lance Bottoms, Atlanta, GA; Muriel Bowser, Washington, DC; London Breed, San Francisco, CA; Sharon Weston Broome, Baton Rouge, LA; LaToya Cantrell, New Orleans, LA; Vi Alexander Lyles, Charlotte, NC; Catherine Pugh, Baltimore, MD); one is Latina (Mary Casillas Salas, Chula Vista, CA); and two are Asian Pacific Islander (Karen K. Goh, Bakersfield, CA; Lily Mei, Fremont, CA).
As of March 2018, per the U.S. Conference of Mayors, of the 285 mayors of the U.S. cities with populations 100,000 and over, 59, or 20.7%, were women. Of the 1,365 mayors of U.S. cities with populations 30,000 and above, 297, or 21.8%, were women. Full list here.
| City | Mayor | Rank |
|---|---|---|
|
Phoenix, AZ |
Thelda Williams |
8 |
Percentages of Women in Elective Office
| Year |
U.S. Congress |
Statewide Elective |
State Legislatures |
Year |
U.S. Congress |
Statewide Elective |
State Legislatures |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 3% | 7% | N/A | 1999 | 12.1% | 27.6% | 22.4% | |
| 1973 | 3% | 8% | N/A | 2001 | 13.6% | 27.6% | 22.4% | |
| 1975 | 4% | 10% | 8% | 2003 | 13.6% | 26.0% | 22.4% | |
| 1977 | 4% | 10% | 9% | 2005 | 15.0% | 25.7% | 22.4% | |
| 1979 | 3% | 11% | 10% | 2007 | 16.1% | 24.1% | 23.5% | |
| 1981 | 4% | 11% | 12% | 2009 | 16.8% | 22.6% | 24.3% | |
| 1983 | 4% | 11% | 13% | 2011 | 16.8% | 22.1% | 23.7% | |
| 1985 | 5% | 14% | 15% | 2012 | 16.8% | 23.4% | 23.7% | |
| 1987 | 5% | 14% | 16% | 2013 | 18.5% | 23.0% | 24.2% | |
| 1989 | 5% | 14% | 16% | 2014 | 18.7% | 22.6% | 24.3% | |
| 1991 | 6% | 18% | 18% | 2015 | 19.4% | 24.7% | 24.6% | |
| 1993 | 10.1% | 22.2% | 20.5% | 2016 | 19.6% | 24.0% | 24.5% | |
| 1995 | 10.3% | 25.9% | 20.6% | 2017 | 19.6% | 22.8% | 25.1% | |
| 1997 | 11.0% | 25.4% | 21.6% | 2018 | 20.0% | 23.7% | 25.4% |